The mother of all pumps can change that, nothing less.

Messiah? When/if the big market makers decide for a long-term pump we'll get one.

Just look at the pump from 300- to 400+, why they did that? Profit. You may think they are net buying during a pump but that is seldom the case. Regarding venture capitalists, most of them are rich kids that will lose all the money their dad has hard-earned during a lifetime. Some of them get lucky, once in a while, but that is all. Do not count on them stabilizing the price.

We need some news , good news .  Paypal is one of them .

with so many good news... i dare you dumper... i dare you bahahahahaha

rubbish

will that trend continue ?

This is not necessarily true. You could inherit money, you could make 100 bad investments and get incredibly lucky with one amazing investment, you could have busted your ass running your own business until it became a huge success (I guess you could consider that an investment in a sense, but again, one good investment), etc., etc.

The point is, there are a lot of ways to get rich, not all of them have to do with investing, and not all rich people who invest are good at investing.

Rich people can do dumb things, and get caught up in the emotion of excitement and greed, just like anyone else. Whether investing is bitcoin is one of those dumb things has yet to be seen, but it's not a guarantee that bitcoin will skyrocket again simply because rich people are investing.

Because a majority of those rich people investing in bitcoin are caught up in the emotion of excitement and greed, just like many others.

It's a cash grab for most investors. They don't care about the technology or the ideology regarding bitcoin. They just want to hopefully line their pockets some more on the backs of greater fools.

Well if you define the future as "super high prices," it's most likely going to involve a lot of suckers, sure. Whether they're a handful of rich suckers or a truckload of middle-class suckers doesn't make much difference.

I think it is sad that the poll uses "Halloween" to mark the day rather than "THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SATOSHI WHITEPAPER"

So n00b.  So fresh.  So innocent.  Surely the bears won't surprise buttsecs him?

I'm a permabull desperate for cheap coins. I suspect he is a very good troll and that this works sometimes. Nothing else makes sense

Some of you guys will never learn. When the price rises 10% over a couple days, you need to ask yourselves, "has anything happened to justify this increase?" If the answer is no, then it's a pump and dump. Every previous rally was triggered by some type of event or sentiment. Chinese exchanges opening, the US government softening its position, or major retail adoption. But none of those matter anymore.

What's happening now that could possibility rally people to buy bitcoin? Increased competition from Apple Pay? More regulations incoming? So... basically nothing.

Such charming naivete...  Here's what is happening:

[deleted polar bear image]

I'm using terms that should be accessible to a four-year-old.  What is it that you'd like me to clarify, my new intrepid investor friend?  

"INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'SPECULATOR'
Speculators are typically sophisticated, risk-taking investors..."

Why is it that the ignorant poor are so averse to learning?
Why do you get so angry when your betters, out of the kindness of their hearts, stoop down to correct you in hopes of imparting some learnings?  Hmm?

[Another bear picture]

*Dang, fell already

Was anybody expecting the drop from 450 to 380?

This is just another short life dead cat bounce, wake up from your moon dream
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=856400

We are $10 lower than one month ago
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855497

My posts all turned out to be true, again..

I realize teh tanking Bitcoin price may be trying on you young finance hobbyists, but buck up, Bucko!  No reason to get all unglued.  Caring people and powerful modern psychopharmaceuticals are ready to help.

[Another "funny" image]

It has one reason. Something which is new to Bitcoin since this year: Dumpers who do everything in their power to take the price down. Every single time.
We're gonna have a real hard time going up again.
I just don't understand what caused this behaviour. They just refuse to let the price go up. 

It's absolutely crazy.

PPC, woah, those were the times...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_970

I fail to see how $370 is not a great price right now

Sure, we were at $360 2 days ago but we've had retracements before we got there and it really looks like we are entering a bull market right now.

Why is nobody buying

get those shorts ready, down we go.

If that,

shorting here is suicide.

Plenty,if all those so called funds,ETF etc are looking to get going

they are wanting as low a price to start from

manipulation is rife and I hope you can see it

Never felt better

o rly


I see 200 incoming

Not sure if people are joking... The plots may seem broken at first sight, but they are a consequence of large changes in the order book, at some distance from the spread.  Months ago, the changes were usually small and usually close to the spread, so the plot usually looked like a fairly smooth valley.

I'm German and what are you referring to?

Even if you intend to spend them, you hope their purchasing power will be greater than fiat's you invested in it. So, then again, you hope newcomers will increase your purchasing power (=you profit at their expense)

Bitcoin wasn't made for trading. It was made to be used as a currency. People buying coins to use them.
The price discovery through traders is bullshit.

Third: I find this utterly unethical and I will hunt your ass as much as I can; and I will certainly love it all the way down.

Regardless of my age, I'm a pretty good shooter  

Lambchop, you're not the one that shitted the bed are you?

Back on topic:  Did we ever have a poll where we hit the highest, and not the lowest price?

Then get out you poor stereotype of a hodler. Your kind is characterized by simply ignoring news, not about panicking.

Russia?  Old lady?  Bed?  Lol, this is just startin' to get good!

If you could all hodl the price below 350 until payday at the end of the month, that'd be great.

Post dumpers are too late. We already reached 10k.

This time it wonīt drop back to 355.

Take a pill or something.

I give up. Emotions got me! :(Posting high deleting low. This thread is died. Never will rise again. Very resistance. Much down. Will sell all my posts.

I am desperate. What should I do? Any recommendation appreciated.

This is like that movie Groundhog Day

Why would you care? The same thing as the previous 50 times will happen. A dump. Taking us back to where we were before or lower.

We need a new poll, When will the page count be 10K?

Please include the answers
x) already there
x) never

Very probable

impressing.

I am not Satoshi.

We have been on page 10k for 12 hours now..   the price will be > $400 at some point on 10k

Unless "unknown" is actually just ghash or dicussfish to hide their true hashing power?

To be honest hope it falls to $50 then I can buy 20 for a Grand,just mine them save them and in a year check the price.

I don't question the sanity of the Le Pen clan, I'm straight-up telling you they're sick fucks.  The father, the daughter, and the National Front.  Unholy frickin' trinity.

Please explain how it's sexist.  Because after growing up with a feminist mother and sister, I still don't get it.  It may be in questionable taste to some people, but really is it sexist.  Is it really true, that by posting the photo, and making a comment about her body really sexist?  Does it show a disrespect towards women...?   Personally I don't think it does.

Would it be homophobic, to post a photo of an attractive gay guy?  

maybe people would feel better if we used this rather delightful photograph of a ducks arse to represent bottoms from now on? hmmm? 

do you think it's fair to repress male behavior?  Do you think young people running in the streets is unfair to old people with walking sticks? Do you think a homogenised society is the path to Utopia?

If so, go back to your logans run society, and please don't use the keyboard anymore... because it's hardly inviting to those without fingers.   You fucking finger Nazi !!!  

Are you serious? I have heard all about the glass ceiling from my mother and sister for decades.  I understand the point that discrimination happens to women. You also must understand discrimination happens to almost every person at some point in their lives;  Educated, uneducated, old, young, black, white, gay, straight, short, tall, fat, thin, male and female.  

Also, this is not a work related space...  it's a PUBLIC FORUM.  

I'm asking why is it sexist, to post a picture of an attractive woman?  Calling a man sexist for looking at a photo of an attractive woman, and or making a comment that she is attractive, is not sexist.  To try and repress that male behavior is sexist.

So please, get down off your high horse and deal with the fact that if a woman wants to pose in a bikini and be photographed, that's her choice, and if a man wants to look at the photo that's his choice, neither event is your choice, in this instance.

What tone towards a woman ?  What tone, where ?

Please point out where the woman was insulted.   I insulted you, but your username is fatMAN, I assume you are a man.  And I insulted you not based on your sex, but because you are suggesting something that's totally untrue.

The original picture...



So it's a pretty woman, who I presume has had a boob job in a bikini, admiring her own boobs.  So please tell me how this picture and comment;

1. Insults women
2. Stops women getting jobs

You will notice I used the word "Insults" and not "offends".  Because some people take offense to almost anything.  That photo does not insult women, It may offend (some) women, but how is that anyone else's concern?   If you get offended by that then I suggest you are easily offended.

As for it insulting women, that is a joke.  It offends some women.  Some women that seem to have a chip on their shoulder.



Does this insult footballers?



Does this insult men?


If he were to post a meme of someone in a wheelchair, saying he can't stop staring at the wheelchair...  The that would be an insult because that is drawing attention to a disability.  But here is the point you and several women seem unable to grasp...

BEAUTY AND BOOBS ARE NOT DISABILITIES SO THERE IS NO INSULT

I have a difficult time reconciling your apparent strong concern for civility and avoiding offense with your choice of name.

Bitcoin back on track! $364...and up to infinity.

Yup +1
Hold you mofos

Its not because you dont spend btc that you dont use em..
Use It as a store of value. Hoard and reduce overall supply. Then let macro economy do its shit.

Édit: otherwise you Will just get burned by trading bots and banks and miss thé next train

Alright. Have fun losing money you delusional weirdos. Sorry for having an opinion other than BTC is going to $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 and that you all will be space titans.

Do you guys seriously believe there is significant commerce in Bitcoin besides drugs and gambling?

Blablablabla

[sorry for feeding trolls]

The price dropped.. oh?  had not even noticed   

Not to mention the benefits to your mental health. Let the healing begin 

Well like you, I don't have time to wade through endless pages of drivel trying to catch up each day. And I hate stress in my life 

because he's trolling the troll maybe ?

Under his great walls of text I eventually caved in, too.

Please donīt quote the troll (Fatman3001), thx.

Neither.

Flatlining.

it will go up today.

Monday is the day

Indeed, neither Joe or Torque can drive the price up or down, only Willy can. Why? Because he's a whale!

I see a lot of people posting that the reaction would be negative. Lets just hope it isn't so.

I remember, at the announcement time price dropped from 660$ to 620$, in a moment of craziness.
Then it bounced a bit but kept falling down to sub-550$. Then it recovered to 630$. After the auction ended,
it collapsed down to 500$, culminating in that 'flash crash' to 450$.
Having said this, i don't think these events are relevant per-se. But they are used by market makers to justify
big movements, and that is what i'm waiting for... 

Careful with the christmas presents, ladies and gentlemen. Hold on to your wallets! Remember Dickens's uncle Scrooge. An if you plan to soften up: unlike Scrooge, you must wait until BTCUSD is 1000!

Is that the first time difficulty has ever adjusted downwards?

I've been away for a couple of weeks, can anyone confirm this?

https://twitter.com/wiz/status/537464186079416322

Is there hope?!

meh, you are helpless. unable to even respond on the subject, always diverging to some stupid ad hominem attacks, making you feel smarter when the only fucked up mind is see here i you. trolling nonstop on a forum. get a life.
anyway, you wanted it now you have it: IGNORE.

Yeah that dump was insane! Mezmerized that this thread wasn't glowing already minutes after it happened. Well, I really don't know what to make of the auction, to be honest... It may be a very good opportunity for Draper to lower his average price per Bitcoin, sure. But I also bet he's kinda bummed having payed that much more back in Summer (probably).

Griping about manipulation is stupid and pointless. If someone is driving the price down just to buy, then you benefit from temporarily lower prices.

the reason there is less demand is because market participants correctly (IMHO) anticipate that there are too many holders who will sell if the price goes just a hundred or two higher. Price has to go lower to attract new money. We are just taking it from each other at this point.

We need new money and that means we need lower prices. The retail money won't really start pouring in until after the rally is well under way and it hasn't even started yet.

I hope she has a QR code. 

Do I think they sold at under market? Yes
Do I think they sold at much under market? No (within $50, probably)
Do I think they will be dumped immediately? No -- let the market chill and move around then the cultists will go in guns blazing and then you dump at a profit (unless you are planning on holding long, long term)

Basically

this is reasonable speculation. i think so too.

and maybe someone feels confident that his low ball bid is going to be a winner so he is happily locking in some profits now.

They wouldn't be trying to crash the market. They would be selling at a profit while there is still enough resistance to dump without much slippage. There's no point in owning bitcoin if you don't eventually sell them or trade them for something. if there are more than one winning bidders with this strategy, then there will be a race to see who can dump first.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-04/bitcoins-seized-from-silk-road-offered-in-second-auction.html

“My guess is that we’ll have fewer bidders this time around because they know they won’t get any bitcoins at a significant discount,” Moro said. “What you are left with are the more serious folks.”

Here is the answer  

I think it has to be done to be able to enjoy this place

how cares its entertaining

He must be drinking, because lampchop hasn't been entertaining in months. In fact he is a cancer to this forum and will be the death of it. If Bitcoin fails, its because of lampchop. landhop killed my grandma.

Loved the image, especially that kiddo... I know that I am posting things people already know, but it's like I want to get heard like everyone, but I'm not getting the topic in which I may have interest, I mean I am not getting a goal in this industry... Now don't just say: ^leave this community then^, because like everybody, even I love Bitcoins and post what I feel maybe either useful or entertaining...

Lolz how come I manipulate price? I didn't attempt to say any annoying BS but everything was entertaining... Anyways, without any more arguments, I would like to say "Peace... Respect... Cheers..."

I apologize again to you if you don't like emoticons... Anyways, I replied on the basis of what I understood... You included the word "price" and that made me think how can a small member like me do that? Am I trolling anywhere that the price will be this or that? No, everywhere I talked about the price, I have tried my best to show the facts and no BS...  Again... Peace, Respect & Cheers...

I said the article was posted on the day of the second auction and it was.  I'm not responsible for the content whether it's rehashed or not.  

I did on the original post, with the "!?" symbol.

Nice picture Adam, err sorry I mean fatman3001...

What sort of non-payment transactions?

Mining ROI is still good enough in other countries whre the electricity costs are next to nothing.

The flat dutifully is great for ROI, I think many mining hardware investments have had a ROI, now the risk (price volatility)  discourages growing your mining investment (possibly encourages first time miners though )

I expected the average miner to be saving a higher present of coins so yes I think supply will be shrinking although I don't expect it to reflect in the price until mining becomes marginally profitable.

So a long sideways or a drop and a big ramp.

Anybody still buying regularly?

I'm a HODLER but at a bit of a cross roads right now regarding 'do I stick with what I have' or 'keep buying'.
No positive news at all for a while now but then again no real negative news.

It's all gone a bit boring.....

I am going to guess casual fakeout of the 1w starting green. Dumpers like to dump, and too much sideways can lead to said situations.

Wierd ... all the lots of about 5k and  3k have small amounts deducted for miner fees.
That 52 k is odd tho ...
Maybe someone made them an offer they could not refuse for an extra 50k over the weekend (Draper ... 2k + 50k = 52k)
Still does not explain why the total is over 52k and not under as you would expect after fees

Could they even do that, without auctioning them? Do they not have some sort of fiduciary duty ?

Answers on a postcard ...

somebody didnt pay for his lot?

such demand, so bullish.

Agreed re 50k ... just putting it out there.
Draper late on payment lol. Having tantrum cos didn't get enough hehe
Or can't be arsed cos he's out on a yacht and it's pocket chance. Meh, the FED's know I'm good for it

The 0.05 aren't fees. I think they were test sends to make sure the address and all else was ok. After a couple of confirms the remainder was sent to the confirmed address to bring it (usually) to a round 5k.

Doesn't explain why 5k when that wasn't the lot size.

That could be the case, but they would have to notify them and give time to pay if that was the case

Right, I think we've analysed the shit out of this (I'm certainly bored), meanwhile, price is doing nothing
Fuel the thrusters for the next blast through into $380 and lets get this show on the road 

25th of December

well beyond that before Christmas. Santa told me.

Great, yet another way to sell Bitcoin for fiat.

takes a lot more than this to make up for windows 8

Some rumors say sony want to accept bitcoins to

bull trolls. bear trolls. trolls everywhere.

Big companies accepting bitcoins hardly did wonder things for the price recently, isn't it?

It adds to bitcoin's legacy for sure but we need stuff to make people buy coins not to sell it.

The problem is that more companies accepting bitcoin didn't make more people using bitcoins or holding. It didn't make people buy bitcoins to spend them or hold them, most of buys happening with bitcoin at those companies are people who hold coins already, specially early investors.

There is still literally zero advantage for average user to buy bitcoins just to spend them on some site except in illegal purchases.

I don't know... Microsoft accepting Bitcoin surely adds heavily to it's legacy long term but I'm not sure it adds any wonders to Bitcoin price except short term pump, just like all others didn't. Until average Joe gets some significant advantage of using Bitcoin to purchase things and could buy it fast and cheap nothing really changes. We need new money in the game and that won't be people buying coins to spend them on Xbox stuff.

"Chinese Official: Bitcoin Can 'Co-exist' with Fiat Currencies"


http://www.coindesk.com/chinese-official-bitcoin-can-co-exist-fiat-currencies/

bullish?

This maybe is a real good news.
Huobi reopens the bank dire transfer tonight.

Where can I buy ripple? I think it's shit but a centralized currency might eventually take over.

IMO bitcoin has too many wallets, too many programs for it so the average joe gets confused as to which one to use. It's better if he's just getting told "use this, do that" and everybody use the same thing

We need more blood in the streets!

You mistaken

There is no volume to make red dildos.

It is closer to red dots going down and down minute by minute

Cheap coins are pretty nice though.

When the last uber-bull throws in the towel, RALLY TIME!

People get the money and leaders they deserve for the most part.

... they are free to believe whichever con-artists they choose, if that is bankster-backed ripple, centralised fiat scams, CNN CNBC so be it. The masses get duped and ripped off at every turn because they choose to be ignorant, brain-washed by manipulative venal controllers and ultimately fleeced, that is their choice.

... if you want to pump ripple you should get a twitter or facebook account, that is where you will find most of the gullible rubes, not so much here.

Is there any obvious reason as to why BTC are crashing atm?

That's a sexist stereotype

Price sucks ass but we HODL in hope.
I'm probably a fucking idiot hodling onto this many coins but I've made my bed now, I might as well die in it.

Am I sensing despair?

sell pressure seem subsided atm..  hopefully bull will return soon

you forgot the exclamation mark   

I'm waiting for the crisis for years.

I'm speculating what will happens when the US state budget is going to be discussed for year, since in 2014 took some time until it got fully approved.

traders selling to buy back lower.

But why does he call them parasites?    Just because they took his money?  Or there is some economic reasoning behind it?

everyone nervously waiting for the plunge?

i own 165btc

which coin should i buy instead of bitcoin to rentire soon?

where is your data center located? ..is it fully insured? muuuahahah

CCMF?

it will drop again

Evils of fiat, destroy the banks and government

blah, blah, blah

this incessant libertarian blather makes the common man

associate bitcoin with barf bags

so just muzzle the fuckers.

ready for the moon?

This is not looking good, low volume,  not enough dumping,

And where the hell are all the trolls? They run and hide when we need them most!

We need a big dump right now to take us back down to 300,

Hehe, 300, anyone still around who remembers when we broke 300 to the upside last year?

Because miners need to pay electricity bills, maintenance expenses,  cover initial investment, they don't have a high margin nowadays (just go and check how mining difficulty is going down) and most of them don't want to hold in this bearish trend.

Probably most of the miners have, at least, expenses around 80-90% of what they mine including all previous points. (And I'm not counting a lot of miners who are doing it at a loss if you count initial investment, and will never recover that money). Some miners, even if they sell 100% of what they mine, they will be at a loss.

There is no way miners are dumping less than that. And of course 10% is impossible, that would mean miners are doing it at a huge fiat loss for a year. I'm sure if some of them were holding expecting higher price, they already run out of liquidity and are forced to liquidate their bitcoins in order to pay their bills every month.

Or you can just send your money to an exchange and pay only a maximum of 0.5% fee... lol. Don't be denial.
If you are mining as an individual you will end up paying more than 20%, some individuals only recovered 25% of what they invested in mining equipment...


Those who are doing OK are probably cashing out, staying in fiat and then they will buy that new chips when they come to the market.
There is not point to hold bitcoin as an investment until this bear trend is over, if your plan is to sell them in a few months in order to get equipment. (And not holding longterm)

Unless you don't have a bank account (should not be a problem if you have enough money to pay for a lot a miners), or you are illegaly avoiding taxes.

Or you could deal with the exchanges... 

When you buy your miner you get an estimate of how many bitcoins you will get based upon difficulty. You purchase and mine. You are essentially paying for bitcoins.

Who are these extremely poor individuals that know how to set up very specific complicated hardware setup that cannot afford electricity?

Why not calculate the amount of people that own bitcoins and say "300,000 people own bitcoins, they have to pay for food, rent, electricity, water, gas, etc... this all comes out to $2 billion per month that people will need to sell their bitcoins to pay for. Bitcoin to -$1000 in 3 months".

all that talk about mass adoption and price skyrocketing, especially in 3rd world countries. 

did any of you consider scenario where mass adoption leads to massive price decrease?

the more people use it to transfer value (transfer as opposed to hodl) less value it has.

So why is hashing rate dropping then?

so we now at bitcoin mining cost of 100$ from miners need to dump 3600 coins asap everyday to cover their cost?  

When?! Looks like we keep going down down down... hopefully the price doesn't!!!

you are wrong.

mining phase of GAW scamcoin is over, everybody back to btc.

And I thought this thread couldn't get any worse...

Would not be surprised when it ends up being the avarage price until next halving.
I see (crystal ball!) it floating around between 200 and 500.

Looks like the highest for today.
Good to see it come back up.

*shrug* what you do is between you and the people you do it with.

shit, i know married couples who have a girlfriend they share... hurts my head even trying to comprehend it, but works for them.

Can someone please call me a moron.
I just dumped all my loose BTC at the exchange.

Dammit. I hate this.

FTFY

Buffett is a dinosaur, he's too old to appreciate a new way of money.

I accept that BTC is a gamble

Clearly LambTroll has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what a damped oscillation is or how it may be implemented into a chaotic system. Also, he's using straw man paradigms -all the time- presenting false evidence, that conform his straw man theories, according to his will with only one goal: To occupy space in this thread and to add noise. Please don't fall into his trap. Just press ignore and let him live in oblivion.

AND PLEASE DON'T QUOTE THE TROLLZ!

Right you just proven yourself to be part of one of those two groups, at least you failed to ignore.
 

We all must listen to LambTroll.
We must sell all our coins and buy dollars.
We must entrust our hopes to the Banks.
Because it's SAFE!

It was funny.

I would say trust nobody, do your own research, and make up your own mind.

What is wrong with you people?

Now is the time to buy.

I can haz L5?

in a self sustaining orbit 

Nice start, gentlemen. 2015 looks like a fun year

It's delicious.  Bulltards behaved like bulltards, payback's a bitch

What makes you think that I get pleasure out of the misery of btc permabulls? cheap coins are good for them, aren't they?


I'm just happy for them. lol

Lol, all those bears turning bull.
We just began with forming the bottom.
Be patient.

We at least have to go through 282 and form a temporary bottom for a few days.
After that we go to unknown places, I bet at least below 250, who knows how far.
But the good part is, it's the last bottom. It's only up after that, that means moon.

This epic shakeout will continue until every weak hand is bled out and the fear is palpable. Who knows how long it will last. But rest assured that, when the tide turns, those of us that held on (or bought more) will reap the rewards.

When short selling the product for a year makes much more

sense than the production itself I guess you run out of

bankers fairly soon, right ?

the bottom is in

Virtex has 20 coins available at the equivalent of less that 260 USD each right now.

There is some serious selling pressure going on and it smells awfully fishy to me.

sold all my 180 btc at 278 hope i am not regret it

is it better to buy back now?

What are we? Chopped liver?

Keep calm and wait

For the run of the bulls.

Or what are you waiting for?

I have this feeling of satisfaction, as all of these delusional morons who were saying on every bounce we will not see 700's 600's ant so on till 300's again, can suck it up now.

I started buying at 263. Bearwhale is about to get slaughtered.

Yes and @ 700$ too.

Forgive my naivety but I HODL, I don't trade.
Who is selling all of these coins, is it another bearwhale or just a shit load of individuals panicing about the price & selling all of their bags.

From what i see, Marinecoin is the only one to have a chance at mass adoption.

If I wouldn't have missclicked my sell order for buy order, I would have made a solid kilo today...

I'm starting to sweat.

Let's count my coins.
...
...
...
Pfew, still as many as 2 hours ago.
The world is still turning, the sun is shining. Let's take a walk outside and clear my mind.

Because it dropped a few dollars when I bought so I wanted to sell it at the level which I bought but that price never came

And the orders I set up trying to sell after that missed by a few cents all of them...

I'm scared. Hodl me.

I hope some people in Sweden Data Center are getting their asses fcked

It is extremely difficult to predict a bottom, i am also surprised as to why BTC is crashing. I would have thought that after the holiday season, buying pressure would resume which would push the price up. The opposite seems to be happening and i cant seem to understand why! Even the so - called gurus are clueless. I guess i am gonna ride this out. The money i invested in my 2 BTC was something that i could afford to lose. It would have been nice to make a profit, but well... you win some, you lose some i suppose! I am so into crypto now that i cannot imagine a world without it, but if BTC continues this slide, we may soon hit a stage when crypto would be worthless or would just become like a hobby, like collecting stamps and physical coins! .

Had sell order on $273.5 and pulled it in the last second

FOR FUCKS SAKE... always this same shit

Everybody Panic!!! 

There is a very small chance we go below 180 this month.
And by that, I don't mean I encourage the price to drop that much

I remember when bitcoin was $1.50 and i didnt know what the value was.

Today is at $260 and i still dont know what the value is.

Figure its somewhere between $.0025 and $1100.00

We will hold strong at 250. For the next few days or weeks....then it's an uptrend for the rest of the year. MARK MY POST.

Have faith neo

Depends on what you think btc is worth

I know what you're saying. People need to really think outside of the box. Don't listen to the media. What does your gut tell you about Bitcoin?..I have become successful in many areas of my life through spiritual guidance and mediation. It's not a bloodbath. The price is being pushed down on purpose by a someone or a group of people. They are making It more affordable for everyday people to hop on board. With the Russian ruble collapse and the world on the brink of another war. There is no better time for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is here for a reason. There are much larger forces at work here. We are all apart of the forum because we were guided here by our destiny. For some reason we are more aware of things than everyday people. So in turn I believe we will be very wealthy in the coming years. There are only a handfull of people who will get rich off of Bitcoin. But that wealth will help re stimulate growth into a stale united states economy and help propell us into a new Era much like the Internet did. Most people won't buy into bitcoin until it's too late to get rich. Because they are still stuck in the Matrix to some extent. Stay calm my friends and meditate.

Difficulty at 340ph   already at the upper end of my prediction 3 days ago.

Discusfish is the biggest pool now.

I would think at least 10000-15000 s5 came on board and then spondoolies cranking it up too

Doesn't matter what I believe or don't believe. My point was that these are very critical times indeed. We are very lucky to be apart of this. I really do believe Bitcoin is headed somewhere great. Some see it. Some dont. Some will soon. You'll see...just ..wait.

why not?

My 8-ball says this:

 a chinabearwhale is bound to come out soon

Monday morning cheap china coins incoming

kenji you so crazy

prepare you for the incoming monster pump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suffered a pretty bad cold the last 2-3 days.

Not sure if bitcoin price follows my health or the other way around.

I'm feeling a bit better today. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Some TA expert claimed the moon affected bitcoin traders and the price, which I thought was bullshit. I noticed it was a full moon last night. Bitcoin crashed to a new low and Bitstamp got hacked! It's just a coincidence, right?

Whatever happens, make sure you don't get Ebola.

Is this true ?

"ITSTAMP SERVICE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamp’s operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015. As a security precaution against compromises Bitstamp only maintains a small fraction of customer bitcoins in online systems. Bitstamp maintains more than....."

If this is a hack of 18k BTC, bitstamp is in a huge trouble....
I suggest those in bitstamp to spend their BTC and get out of there ASAP.

Also, this can be an insider hack, like sending those customer's coins to an address and announce it as hacked and say sorry!!!
In today's world, this is very possible....

Need to say... I'm impresed there was no panic on other exchanges (yet) 

i laugh to the face people who bought for +1000$

I would say that these thefts will happen again. What we need are ATMs that are hack proof like Trezors. Bitcoin needs to focus on being an impenetrable iron vault that fits in your pocket. Only licensed brokers should be allowed to trade bitcoins on the markets although you are free to use the ATMs as a convenience.

Exchanges have little to do with trade. Fiat exchanges are robbed every day (fraud, HFT, more fraud), but we don't hear about it because they just print more money. Bitcoin doesn't need 24/7 exchanges, do you? Bitcoin needs to be known as indestructible. You can't do that with networked servers.

Meanwhile, network hash rate accelerates upward  

I think that well-positioned miners are still making very good money selling at this rate. Casual miners in the west -- not so much. But established miners with good access to new generation chips and cheap electricity (in China, etc), I believe can still be profitable. I remember seeing numbers thrown around, but cannot recall them now, though.

we know it!

I'm very happy to only have 0,07 BTC over there which I received for trading some worthless shit ripple I once got in the past for beta testing.
Since I had to verify I went to finex, fuck that shit.
I'm happy to trade on finex and btc-e

Never lost a coin on any exchange other than making mistakes with trading
Overall profit ofcourse

Market is being buoyed by Coinbase buyers switching to BFX and/or just somebody trying to put a floor under this. That said, the bottom is clearly about to fall out. Mining has accelerated so that miners can get new coins and sell them at this price before the price falls to the single digits. Then it dies. The end. Nothing else to say. The s--- has just died. Period. Death.

Enjoy the bloody sharts over the next few days.

Why not? Cheap coins
I mean, bitcoin won't die does it? Please,... tell me it won't die.
please
please
please!

do you think it is better to change in ripple/altcoins?

Bitcoin will finally separate from fiat, will become much more useful, and its price in USD will have no significance.

Weird silence from stamp. Statement to journalist speaks to me they were pressed for answers.

sheesh thats one dumb ass comment after another...

I've seen this many times but I still don't know what it means...

CCMF?? Anybody?

Hey guys, bitstamp got haxxed, did you hear?!?!  

Not much space left to cut the shotrs at this point

If this happened in the real world it would be serious but its a Bitcoin Exchange so everyone just sits tight like its normal.

you guys lose money first on mt.gox, than you lose money second time on stamp, how many more times you need to lose money to learn that online exchanges are scam to take out your money? you can quote me on next exchange scam.

I think this was a timed incident to make Bitcoin look bad for World of Bitcoin. Stamp is very unlikely culpable.

I don't think the stamp thing will make much of an impact on the price. They handled it in a professional manner so far and the loss is manageable. After Gox nobody is suprised that this things could happen.

it is me or bears are starting to feel uneasy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRKhTvUUYMI

You still short fatman? That is so 5 January

new zhou tonged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBP9dpVM70&feature=em-uploademail

Lol! Is there something significant about the age of the dancers? Is that how old we all gonna be by next bubble?  :D

Yeah yeah, whatever mate I am perfectly happy with who and what I am... And yeah if you were behaving like an absolute jackass to my face,  in person, then one of us would be in trouble,  no doubt about that sunshine.

Just a pity retards like you won't fuck off and stop trolling the absolute shit out of this thread, is my point, and frankly I am not wasting my time with a troll fuckwit like you any longer. So on you go.

I wear a mother fucking bull costume & I will be smoking a pipe, wearing a monocle soon gentlemen.